Changeset 673b0d8 for chapter06/binutils.xml

Timestamp:

05/03/2004 10:59:46 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

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• Merged newxml into HEAD

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• chapter06/binutils.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

chapter06/binutils.xml

@@ +1 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+  %general-entities;
+]>
 <sect1 id="ch-system-binutils" xreflabel="Binutils">
-<title>Installing Binutils-&binutils-version;</title>
-<?dbhtml filename="binutils.html" dir="chapter06"?>
+<title>Binutils-&binutils-version;</title>
+<?dbhtml filename="binutils.html"?>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils"><primary sortas="a-Binutils">Binutils</primary></indexterm>
 
 <para>The Binutils package contains a linker, an assembler, and other tools for
 handling object files.</para>
 
-<screen>&buildtime; &binutils-time;
-&diskspace; &binutils-compsize;</screen>
+<screen>&buildtime; 1.4 SBU
+&diskspace; 167 MB</screen>
 
-&aa-binutils-down;
-&aa-binutils-dep;
+<para>Binutils installation depends on: Bash, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext,
+Glibc, Grep, Make, Perl, Sed, Texinfo.</para>
 
-<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
 
 <sect2><title>Installation of Binutils</title>
@@ -35 +42 @@
 default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options).
 Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override
-default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting
+default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend un-setting
 or modifying them when building Binutils.</para>
 
@@ -46 +53 @@
 <para>Now prepare Binutils for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>../&binutils-dir;/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>Compile the package:</para>
@@ -79 +86 @@
 some packages:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>cp ../&binutils-dir;/include/libiberty.h /usr/include</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>cp ../binutils-&binutils-version;/include/libiberty.h /usr/include</userinput></screen>
 
 </sect2>
 
-&aa-binutils-shortdesc;
-&aa-binutils-desc;
+
+<sect2 id="contents-binutils"><title>Contents of Binutils</title>
+
+<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: addr2line, ar, as, c++filt,
+gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings and
+strip</para>
+
+<para><emphasis>Installed libraries</emphasis>: libiberty.a, libbfd.[a,so] and
+libopcodes.[a,so]</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
+<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils addr2line"><primary sortas="b-addr2line">addr2line</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="addr2line"><command>addr2line</command> translates program addresses to file
+names and line numbers. Given an address and the name of an executable, it
+uses the debugging information in the executable to figure out which source
+file and line number are associated with the address.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ar"><primary sortas="b-ar">ar</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="ar"><command>ar</command> creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive
+is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes
+it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of
+the archive).</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils as"><primary sortas="b-as">as</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="as"><command>as</command> is an assembler. It assembles the output of
+gcc into object files.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils c-filt"><primary sortas="b-c++filt">c++filt</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="c-filt"><command>c++filt</command> is used by the linker to de-mangle C++ and
+Java symbols, to keep overloaded functions from clashing.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils gprof"><primary sortas="b-gprof">gprof</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="gprof"><command>gprof</command> displays call graph profile data.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ld"><primary sortas="b-ld">ld</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="ld"><command>ld</command> is a linker. It combines a number of object
+and archive files into a single file, relocating their data and tying up symbol
+references.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils nm"><primary sortas="b-nm">nm</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="nm"><command>nm</command> lists the symbols occurring in a given object file.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils objcopy"><primary sortas="b-objcopy">objcopy</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="objcopy"><command>objcopy</command> is used to translate one type of object
+file into another.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils objdump"><primary sortas="b-objdump">objdump</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="objdump"><command>objdump</command> displays information about the given
+object file, with options controlling what particular information to display.
+The information shown is mostly only useful to programmers who are working on
+the compilation tools.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ranlib"><primary sortas="b-ranlib">ranlib</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="ranlib"><command>ranlib</command> generates an index of the contents of an
+archive, and stores it in the archive. The index lists all the symbols defined
+by archive members that are relocatable object files.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils readelf"><primary sortas="b-readelf">readelf</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="readelf"><command>readelf</command> displays information about elf type binaries.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils size"><primary sortas="b-size">size</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="size"><command>size</command> lists the section sizes -- and the grand
+total -- for the given object files.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils strings"><primary sortas="b-strings">strings</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="strings"><command>strings</command> outputs, for each given file, the sequences
+of printable characters that are of at least the specified length (defaulting to 4).
+For object files it prints, by default, only the strings from the initializing
+and loading sections. For other types of files it scans the whole file.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils strip"><primary sortas="b-strip">strip</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="strip"><command>strip</command> discards symbols from object files.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils libiberty"><primary sortas="c-libiberty">libiberty</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="libiberty"><command>libiberty</command> contains routines used by various GNU
+programs, including getopt, obstack, strerror, strtol and strtoul.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils libbfd"><primary sortas="c-libbfd">libbfd</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="libbfd"><command>libbfd</command> is the Binary File Descriptor library.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils libopcodes"><primary sortas="c-libopcodes">libopcodes</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="libopcodes"><command>libopcodes</command> is a library for dealing with opcodes.
+It is used for building utilities like objdump. Opcodes are the <quote>readable
+text</quote> versions of instructions for the processor.</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
 
 </sect1>
-